Keras Import Error Tensorflow backend - tensorflow

Question

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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/CJL/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/backend/tensorflow_backend.py in <module>()
4 try:
----> 5 from tensorflow.python.ops import ctc_ops as ctc
6 except ImportError:
ImportError: cannot import name 'ctc_ops'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-10-c74e2bd4ca71> in <module>()
----> 1 import keras
/Users/CJL/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/__init__.py in <module>()
1 from __future__ import absolute_import
----> 2 from . import backend
3 from . import datasets
4 from . import engine
5 from . import layers
/Users/CJL/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/backend/__init__.py in <module>()
67 elif _BACKEND == 'tensorflow':
68 sys.stderr.write('Using TensorFlow backend.\n')
---> 69 from .tensorflow_backend import *
70 else:
71 raise Exception('Unknown backend: ' + str(_BACKEND))
/Users/CJL/anaconda3/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/backend/tensorflow_backend.py in <module>()
5 from tensorflow.python.ops import ctc_ops as ctc
6 except ImportError:
----> 7 import tensorflow.contrib.ctc as ctc
8
9 import numpy as np
ImportError: No module named 'tensorflow.contrib.ctc'
Seems like is an problem with Keras and not Tensorflow according to this post enter link description here
I was wondering if this has been fixed yet?

Answer 1

This is a problem between Keras and tensorflow. You should change this fix to use something like
if hasattr(tf.contrib, 'ctc'):
ctc = tf.contrib.ctc # old version
else:
ctc = tf.nn # New official version.
The current "official" way to access the ctc operations are in tf.nn, for instance, tf.nn.ctc_loss.

Answer 2

If keras is giving an import problem and you are facing "no module named keras" even if you have installed it.
Just upgrade your pip by:
python -m pip install –upgrade pip
Re-install upgraded keras and tensorflow by:
pip install keras
pip install tensorflow
Hope it will solve the problem. If not, try upgrading your conda (Anaconda) and then do steps 1 to 3 above again.